Up and Running

JULY 17, 2017

My neighborhood of Alberta in Portland, Oregon, where small local businesses are plentiful. If you’re considering making the leap and starting your own business, you’re likely eager to ensure that you’re making a smart decision. Is now really a good time to start a business? There’s a sense of real optimism.”

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Up and Running

JUNE 29, 2010

If you’re serious about starting a business, growing a business that already exists or managing your business better, and you’re in the United States, then you ought to know where the nearest SBDC is. That stands for Small Business Development Center. There are about 1,000 of them in the United States.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2013

3 Website Trends That Customers (and Business Owners) Will Love written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Andy Hayes – Enjoy! Andy Hayes is a creative web producer based in sunny Portland, Oregon.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

AUGUST 5, 2010

From OregonLive.com : It's hardly unusual to hear small-business owners gripe about licensing requirements or complain that heavy-handed regulations are driving them into the red. Her business was a lemonade stand at the Last Thursday monthly art fair in Northeast Portland. The government regulation she violated?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

Similarly, Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses program is a $500 million investment to provide entrepreneurs with access to education, financial capital and business support services. Big companies that invest in small businesses play an important role in creating jobs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 14, 2012

I recently got back from a cross-country road trip where I drove from Chicago to Portland, OR. ” So it was a breath of fresh roast (so to speak) to come back home and find this week’s small business spotlight in my inbox. Related posts: Small Business Spotlight of the Week: French Truck Coffee.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Portland, Oregon-based Shwood was founded by Eric Singer, whose inspiration for starting the company came from hand-carving a pair of sunglass frames one day out of a Madrone tree limb from his own backyard, adding a rusty pair of cabinet hinges and lenses from a corner store. America’s Favorite Small Business.

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MARCH 16, 2014

This could represent a meaningful expense for many of those businesses, but also represents a meaningful opportunity to increase productivity, improve employee morale, and develop a stronger company culture of caring and confidence. Why is this good for small business? Small business Start ups new york city sick leave'

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Up and Running

APRIL 26, 2013

3) Shameless self-promotion moment: If you didn’t get a chance to read my interview with Portland rap legend Cool Nutz , please do. He gives a detailed account of his rise to success, the secrets of his business model, and what he thinks is wrong with a lot of young musicians. But which causes which?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 26, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I got to listen to Amy Boggs, under-30 founder of a Portland,OR house cleaning business called Sparkling Palaces, sharing her story. She was fun to listen to, refreshingly honest about the ups and downs of getting her business going, and funny, too. It was a good meeting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

The Executive Summary for a bank lending plan should be a literal summary of the entire business plan, with a paragraph roughly devoted to the product/service, market, industry, marketing, and management. Keep in mind that a Small Business Administration-backed loan requires certain sections for a business plan.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 11, 2014

It’s All About the Choices We Make written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. In mid July I’ll be in Portland presenting at Chris Guillebeau’s World Domination Summit. But you’ll have to be in Portland to hear the story behind that!).

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

Nearby Portland Oregon (just 160 miles away) is home to over 300 startups; between the two markets, nearly 80 new startups are forming each year. Most teams have a reluctance and willingness to “go for it” when they finally do have a scalable business and have validated the key aspects of their business model.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 21, 2014

How to Get More Customers for Free This Week Through Google written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. You see neighboring businesses, competitors, and everyone else get customers through their door, and you’re getting nothing. How many of you have used Google My Business?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

And so they are devouring click-throughs that used to go to either a small business website or even a big brand website that might have a local presence. They’re pulling in the list of human curated list of successful local businesses and showing those right in the knowledge panel. David thanks for joining me.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JULY 28, 2011

Their business brings together one of the hot new trends in small business, food carts and mobile food trucks, with good old fashioned soda fountain. The beauty of food carts and mobile food trucks is the low start-up cost, as seen in this profile on the food cart boom in Portland, Oregon from Business on Main.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

Black Friday is great and all, but if you’re only going to hit the big box stores, you could be missing out on a number of unique things that small businesses are offering. Small Business Saturday is tomorrow. It was started by American Express in 2010 to encourage people to shop at small businesses.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 7, 2023

Running a small business can be quite challenging, so it’s important to know what you need to do to keep the challenges manageable or get them out of the way altogether. While specific businesses may call for specific details in their layout, running, and marketing, there are some considerations that cut across all businesses.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2019

I wanted to do what I guess we would now call a coworking space, like the We Works of the world, but it was more old-fashioned and it was executive suites with small private offices but shared receptionists, shared secretarial, if you will, shared copier services. It was just a thing I grew up with. The software was different.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

” That’s what got me connected with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center and Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center. Jude’s Foods tool list: Accounting software is a no-brainer for small businesses; you’ve got to keep things organized.

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Up and Running

JUNE 1, 2016

Here in Portland, Oregon, you can’t swing a stick without hitting half a dozen food trucks serving up a range of delicious options. While momentum has slowed slightly, food trucks continue to be a profitable restaurant business model. The craze for mobile eats has been on the rise. What does it mean to have a “strong concept?”

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2016

When I was nine years old, I never dreamed that the small, quarter vending machine I owned would turn me into a small business owner and a college graduate. Wanting to inspire a sense of entrepreneurship and business in his daughter, my dad brought home a vending machine he had purchased from a friend.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2015

Running a small business is no different. Also playing on this idea, Salt & Straw, a popular ice cream retail chain in Portland, Oregon, is serving up totally unexpected flavors. It’s the restaurant you tell your friends and family about. In other words, it’s the restaurant you become a brand ambassador for.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Locations: Aarhus, Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, London, Milan, Paris, Venice, Atlanta, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., In that time, it has helped businesses to “craft honest, emotional experiences through strategy, brand development, graphic design, web design, and storytelling.”.

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Up and Running

JUNE 3, 2011

Frank Chimero , a designer and author in Portland, Oregon, keeps a collection of articles that inspire him to make things. Text Playlist. I keep what I perceive to be a more valuable, important morgue file: one made of the best writing on the web I come across. I take this list and revisit and reread it every 4 to 8 weeks.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In this article, I’ll go over what you need to do to make Instagram work for your small business, and show you how to develop a content strategy that highlights your business and helps build your brand. See Also: Facebook Marketing: A Small Business Guide. Set up your business Instagram account.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

Obviously, there are a lot of people out there that would love to have this success in the revenue that’s come with that success directly related to podcasting that you have, but I talk a lot of small business owners and actually tell them that one of the little talked about things that podcasting can bring you is access.

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www.businessweek.com

JUNE 18, 2012

Business Schools. Small Business. Kharif is a reporter for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek in Portland, Ore. Bloomberg Businessweek. Technology. Global Economics. Companies & Industries. Politics & Policy. Technology. Markets & Finance. Innovation. Video & Multimedia. Google Plus. Most Popular.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

Red Wagon is now poised to expand into Portland and Southern Oregon, including wholesaling to larger regional grocery chains and adding more co-branded scoop shops. “We We are now in our third cycle with LivePlan, having used it to plan for our production growth here, and a third plan to start getting funding for our California expansion.”.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Starting a small business is always a challenge and inherently risky, but be careful not to get in over your head… try to take those risks in a managed, scaled pace, and you’ll likely find them easier to tackle. Interested in having your small business featured? Related posts: Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Slikc.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Some cities, such as Portland, OR, also have what Patrick calls “beer angels,” private individuals who understand the beer business and invest in select breweries and cideries. Loans from the Small Business Administration (SBA) can also be a good avenue, but “bank to bank the SBA program is used differently,” says Patrick.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

The Mattress Lot is a shop in Portland, Oregon that was started out of desperation after the shop owner, Michael Hanna, lost his job with Comcast and had trouble finding another one. Now they are a focal point and beloved player in the Portland indie business scene. You can worry about the details later.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2016

I started my company to increase the awareness about marketing within the small business community (what it is, what it is not, how to know you’re doing it right, etc) as I come across many that confuse marketing with PR or sales and are frustrated when their marketing programs don’t create the sales boost they expect.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2019

John Jantsch: So, in preparation for this, because you do the conference and have your business in the city of Portland. Portland, Maine. John Jantsch: Yeah, I was going to go there, because I did a little search, I said, “Fun facts about Portland, Maine.” It was five fun facts about Portland, Oregon.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Most small businesses and startups that are looking to grow— hire a new employee , or buy a new piece of equipment, or open a new location —need to think hard about cash flow, or making sure they have enough money in the bank to meet payroll and other financial obligations. Watch your finances. he explains.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

” I ordered a CD from CD Baby, I think it was, and they sent the most hilarious shipping notice about the party they were having in downtown Portland, as they lovingly sent my package off to the post office. And if you’re a small business, again, that long-term perspective. It had nothing to do with the thing itself.

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